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Mary: Estonko! Mary cvhocefkvt os. Centv, naket cehocefkvt owa?
Bill: Bill cvhocefkvt os.
Mary: ‘Stvmin vtetskēt owa?
Bill: Norman vtvyēt os.
Mary: O, mowēt?
Mary: Mon centv? Naket cehocefkvt owa?
Sue: Sue cvhocefkvt os.
Mary: ‘Stvmin vtetskēt owa?
Sue: Henryettan vtvyēt os.
Vocabulary
| estonko! | how are you? |
| … cvhocefkvt os. | … is my name. |
| o, mowēt? | oh, really? |
| mon centv? | and how about you? |
| nake | what |
| Naket cehocefkvt owa?~Naket cehocefkv tē? | What is your name? |
| ‘stvmin | where |
| … vtetskēt owa? | do you come from …? |
| … vtvyēt os. | I come from … |
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Exercises
A. Fill in the blanks.
- Centv, __________ cehocefkvt owa?
- __________ vtetskēt owa?
- Norman __________ .
- Mon __________? Naket cehocefkvt owa?
B. Answer the questions.
- Bill ‘stvmin vtēt owa?
- Sue tv? ‘Stvmin vtēt owa?
- Centv, naket cehocefkvt owa?
- ‘Stvmin vtetskēt owa?
Language patterns
A. Mary cvhocefkvt os means “Mary my-name is”. Hocefkv is the word for ‘name’:
- hocefkv ‘name’
- cvhocefkv ‘my name’
- cehocefkv ‘your name’
B. Os means ‘is’ or ‘does’. In a question with a question word, it changes to owa?
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- Bill cvhocefkvt os. ‘My name is Bill’ / Naket cehocefkvt owa? ‘What is your name?’
- Norman vtvyēt os. ‘I come from Norman.’ / ‘Stvmin vtetskēt owa? ‘Where do you come from?’
A short way to say owa is tē: Naket cehocefkv tē? What is your name?
C. The verb vtetv means ‘to come (from)’ when you’re talking about one person.
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- vtetv ‘(one) to come (from)’
- vtvyēt os ‘I come (from)’
- vtetskēt os ‘you come (from)’
- ‘Stvmin vtetskēt owa? ‘Where do you come from?’
- vtēt os ‘he/she/it comes (from)’ (There’s no mark for ‘he/she/it’.)
- vtetv ‘(one) to come (from)’
